WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] xen cpu affinity, ie; pinning cpus

Hi Robert,

I did the grub mods.

Here what I have now;

Name                                ID  VCPU   CPU State   Time(s) CPU Affinity
Domain-0                             0     0     0   r--     216.6 any cpu
fm                                         0                   0.0 1
intranet                                   0                   0.0 2
michel                               3     0     3   -b-      10.1 3
michel                               3     1     4   -b-       6.6 4
vault                                1     0     5   -b-      23.2 5
zello                                2     0     6   -b-      21.0 6
zello                                2     1     7   -b-      20.1 7


Why does Domain-0 say any cpu under CPU Affinity?

I still notice it changes from 0 to 4 to 0 to 3 to ...

Functions much better overall.

Just curious how to properly interpret the behavior.


- Brian

On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Robert Dunkley wrote:

Hi Brian,
 
You need to set this in your kernel config as well as xend-config.sxp, eg. add the following to your kernel line in grub.conf:
dom0_max_vcpus=2
 
Set d cpu affinity, ie; pinning cpus

Hi all,

I've read a few posts about this and have pinned my domUs.

I've a dual quad core Opteron.

I've also set dom0-cpus 1 in my xend-config file.

xm vcpu-list shows

Name                                ID  VCPU   CPU State   Time(s) CPU 
Affinity
Domain-0                             0     0     0   r--   59582.6 any 
cpu
Domain-0                             0     1     -   --p   13227.9 any 
cpu
Domain-0                             0     2     -   --p   13527.5 any 
cpu
Domain-0                             0     3     -   --p   12448.3 any 
cpu
Domain-0                             0     4     -   --p   13520.6 any 
cpu
Domain-0                             0     5     -   --p   17223.0 any 
cpu
Domain-0                             0     6     -   --p   12614.1 any 
cpu
Domain-0                             0     7     -   --p   13570.9 any 
cpu
bugs                                24     0     2   -b-     598.5 2
logantools                          26     0     3   -b-     147.8 3
nello                               27     0     5   -b-     246.7 5
zmail                               25     0     6   -b-    8064.4 6
zmail                               25     1     7   r--    7681.2 7

Every few seconds, the first occurrence of Domain-0 changes to 4, then 
back to 0.

Why?

If I change dom0-cpus 2 so that it uses 2 cpus, xend won't restart and 
errors;

[2009-10-21 10:36:54 26309] INFO (XendDomainInfo:157) Recreating 
domain 0, UUID 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000. at /local/domain/0
[2009-10-21 10:36:54 26309] DEBUG (XendDomain:452) Adding Domain: 0
[2009-10-21 10:36:54 26309] DEBUG (XendDomain:386) number of vcpus to 
use is 2
[2009-10-21 10:36:54 26309] ERROR (SrvDaemon:349) Exception starting 
xend (Cannot set vcpus greater than max vcpus on running domain)
Traceback (most recent call last):

So it appears I don't understand cpu pinning when it comes to dom0.

- Brian


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

The SAQ Group
Registered Office: 18 Chapel Street, Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 3DZ
SAQ is the trading name of SEMTEC Limited. Registered in England & Wales
Company Number: 06481952
 
SAQ Group Delivers high quality, honestly priced communication and I.T. services to UK Business.
Broadband : Domains : Email : Hosting : CoLo : Servers : Racks : Transit : Backups : Managed Networks : Remote Support.

 

 SAQ Group

 

ISPA Member
_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users